The Hello, welcome to episode 838 of the sleeper in the the Bus. It is Tuesday August 4th.

I'm your host Paul Spomer and I am joined by Justin Mason.

Justin, good afternoon, sir.

Good morning from here, I guess.

Morning from where you're at, noon here. But how you doing?

Been a little sick, so I apologize to the people who kind of reached out like,

hey, where are your articles? I really, really miss them and stuff like that.

But unfortunately, he came down with some gross sickness and

hoping it's not COVID find out well I get a test tomorrow so hopefully that is all clear and I can come off the I.

Major fingers crossed there that everything is good.

Glad that you're not feeling worse at least.

Yeah, it's stagnant, which is good.

So, I apologize if I sound a little weird or if I end up muting myself to cough or something like that

But I'm powering through there's no I L at fan graphs that's right. That's right. We don't we don't know we don't I. on the pond. Well we got plenty to talk about we have to talk about a lot of the

I L for real baseball unfortunately and we're just gonna dive into the crummy news I'm

sorry folks we gotta do it Mike Sorocca out for the year with a torn Achilles and I got to be honest.

It didn't look like anything else.

The best you could have hoped for when you saw the replay was that it was a cramp that just got him.

But as soon as he landed on it like that and it buckled and then he kind of tried to push off and couldn't get any sort of weight, it seemed pretty obvious as to what it was.

And it turns out it's a torn Achilles

and he'll be done for the year.

The non-fantasy angle real quick

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